Why nParse+

nParse+ set out to give every platform what Windows players get from EQTool/PigParse — and to fold in the best of nParse and the trigger workflow GINA made standard. This page shows where it stands next to those tools.

First, the debt

None of this is a knock on the tools below — nParse+ literally is nParse (GPL-3.0 fork lineage) plus a 1:1 port of EQTool's feature set and data (MIT, pinned source commit in CREDITS.md), with GINA as the archetype for how trigger tools should feel. If you're happy on one of them, keep using it — nParse+ interoperates with EQTool users on the network either way.

Feature matrix

Legend: ✅ full support · 🟡 partial / different approach · ❌ not available

Feature	nParse+	EQTool	nParse	GINA
Platforms	✅ macOS, Windows, Linux	❌ Windows only	✅ cross-platform	❌ Windows only
Spell/buff timers (real spell DB, level-scaled)	✅	✅	🟡 casting-based guesses	❌
Custom triggers (text + TTS + timers + counters)	✅	✅	🟡 simple custom timers	✅
Built-in raid trigger library	✅ (ported from EQTool)	✅	❌	❌ (community shares packages)
Trigger tokens ({name}, {c}, {COUNTER})	✅	✅	❌	✅ ({S}, {C} style)
Zone-gated triggers	✅	✅	❌	❌
Maps with live position	✅	✅	✅	❌
NPC search + live P99 wiki lookup	✅	✅	❌	❌
Spawn-point / respawn timers (per-NPC times)	✅	✅	🟡 manual spawn timers	❌
DPS meter	✅	✅	❌	❌
CH chain tracking	✅	✅	❌	❌
Mob info on /consider (respawn, loot, prices)	✅	✅	❌	❌
PigParse network (shared map dots, timers, feeds)	✅ live interop	✅	❌	❌
Self-hostable location sharing	✅ (nparse websocket mode)	❌	✅	❌
Death-loop detection	✅	✅	❌	❌
Boat schedules	✅	✅	❌	❌
Night Vision fix (apply/revert)	✅	✅	❌	❌
Friends-list sync across characters	✅	✅	❌	❌
Per-character profiles	✅	✅	❌	✅ (per-character trigger sets)
Text-to-speech alerts	✅ native on all 3 OSes	✅	❌	✅
Discord overlay	✅	❌	✅	❌
Self-updater	✅	✅	❌	✅
Trigger export/import (shareable files)	✅ JSON packs	❌	❌	✅ (.gtp packages)
Trigger import from GINA	✅ reads .gtp/XML (details)	🟡	❌	—

What only nParse+ offers

• The EQTool feature set outside Windows. Everything in the EQTool column above, running natively on macOS and Linux (including a Flatpak with flatpak update support) as well as Windows.
• Live PigParse interop from any OS — your map dots, shared timers, and feeds appear to EQTool users and theirs to you, from a Mac or Linux box.
• Both sharing networks in one tool: the PigParse hub and nParse's self-hostable websocket mode for private groups.
• One unified settings window with per-character profiles, per-window opacity/always-on-top/click-through, spell class filters, and window layout presets.
• nParse's map + Discord overlay heritage combined with EQTool's spell/trigger/combat engine — previously you had to pick one.

What the others still do better

Honesty cuts both ways:

• GINA has a huge ecosystem of shared trigger packages. nParse+ now imports .gtp packages directly (sound files and phrase modifiers aside) and has its own JSON export/import, but the community library itself still lives in GINA's world.
• EQTool is the reference implementation of the PigParse network and gets its own features first; nParse+ ports them after.
• nParse (upstream) is smaller and simpler if all you want is the map.

If you're coming from any of these, the Migrating pages map each tool's concepts to their nParse+ equivalents.